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"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."

"Leaders reject free opportunities they don't need, so that they can have time to create the expensive opportunities they need."

"Whatever dream God gave to you is for the comfort of those God keeps around you!"

"Be the chief but never the lord."

"When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you."

"If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind."

"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"

"Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of you. Do you know who a P.O.O.R person is? P.O.O.R people are those who are "Passing On Opportunities Repeatedly"!"

"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."

"With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!"
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"The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West."

"The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things."

"When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result."

"I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time."

"When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China."

"My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache."

"On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions."

"When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English."

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

"There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other."
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